Agriculture

Hear that buzz? See those bees? Taste that honey? When the California Honey Festival takes place Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland, you'll hear the buzz, see the buzz, and sample honey.

It's all the buzz! The California Honey Festival, set Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Woodland, will focus on honey, bees, plants and pollination.

Bees, butterflies and beetles will be well represented at the 145th annual Dixon May Fair, which opens Thursday, May 5 for a four-day run (May 5-8) after a two-year hiatus.

With the month of May upon us, wildfire season (at least here in the Sierra foothills) is just around the corner.

Caring for feedlot cattle, examining onion irrigation practices, and teaching preschoolers about agriculture are not part of the typical college curriculum. But for Desert Research and Extension Center's five college student interns, these activities are what fill their days.

When officials at the Bohart Museum of Entomology asked UC Davis students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows if they would like to create a scientific traveling display case of insect specimens, one of those answering the call was postdoctoral researcher Severyn Korneyev, a Ukrainian entomo...

The 2022 UC Davis Small Grains and Alfalfa/Forages Field Day will be held: May 17th, 8:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. with tours of Small Grains Breeding plots to follow in the afternoon LOCATION: Department of Plant Sciences Field Facility, UC Davis (2400 Hutchison Dr, Davis CA 38.5390, -121.

"The use of synthetic chemical pesticides is central to current agricultural practices worldwide.

The questions come in: "Why do my fruit look like this?" Well there are often simple explanations. And often there are complex ones. But one way to start looking at a piece of fruit damage is to consult this wonder color brochure put out by UC - https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8090.

JUST HOW DRY IS IT? It really doesn't look good out there for many western alfalfa growers. Most parts of the West are currently under 'severe, extreme, or exceptional' drought. One would think that NOAA and USDA would run out of superlatives! (how about 'excruciating'?). Figure 1.